Popular Science receives too many comments against their flawed science and shuts down comments

Popular Science Succumbs To Corporate Pressure And Shuts Down COMMENTS

Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here's why.A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again.MORE:http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-were-shutting-our-comments

In other words, Popular Science is getting tired of all the comments pointing out where Popular Science is wrong, especially about human-caused global warming. And Popular Science is not the only corporate media now shutting off comments to save face. And what this will mean is FEWER people will be reading Popular Science, because the public has a taste for being able to contribute to the discussions now, and will favor the independent media, where the First Amendment (not to mention the truth) is still respected!

The official story is that the black boxes from the 9-11 aircraft, the flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, were never recovered. Yet we know from a wide variety of sources that the boxes, designed to survive a crash, did so, and were sending out their locator pings. So, what is on those flight recorders, and more to the point the cockpit voice recorders that is being concealed form the American people?http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911_black_boxes.html

U.S. intelligence received reports of a serious threat in Kenya before last week’s terrorist attack at a Nairobi mall that left 62 dead and more than 150 injured, NBC News reported. Officials said that NSA reviewed intelligence of a “credible” threat.Kenyan police arrested nine suspects tied to the attack. Al Shabbab, a Somali terror group tied to Al Qaeda, had claimed creditfor the attack.

Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States’ government said Saturday they’ve teamed up to report on the National Security Agency’s role in what one called a “U.S. assassination .”

We suspect a Human To Human Airborne H7N9 Variant has been detected by the USG, otherwise this level of preparation does not make fiscal sense.

Today, U.S. Government Department of Health & Human Services [DHHS] released a solicitation that states it will use the Presidential Emergency Alert System [EAS] for a Pandemic Flu Emergency televised broadcast. In a related development, two days ago the FCC put out notice seeking immediate broadcaster comments the first and only test run of the Emergency Alert System which took place in 2011

In an uncanny UN-coinncidence, DHHS also released a solicitation to purchase SPROUT Social Media to help them TWEET to the public, while TWITTER announce it is activating its Emergency Alert System to allow Government Organizations to TWEET messages in time of emergency.

The Presidential Emergency Action Notice [EAN] will look something like the image below, and its primary initial purpose will be to delay public panic. As such, the EAN will signal the last fleeting time period where additional safety measures may be taken while the public attempts to make sense of the H7N9 Pandemic Flu Emergency Broadcast.

As austerity continues to wreak havoc for families in Portugal, people are turning to volunteer charities to provide them with food parcels. Charities are now essential in the lives of increasingly deprived sectors of the population.

'It's not life, it's survival': Crisis-hit Portuguese forced to live in communes (VIDEO)

The decision to resort to austerity has returned to bite the coalition government of Portugal, who've suffered defeat in local elections.

The country is likely to see a third consecutive year of recession. And tax hikes and job cuts are forcing people to find new ways to survive, as Sara Firth reports.

One of Britain's biggest cities has been witnessing its largest-ever protest - as health cuts draw tens of thousands onto the streets. It's timed to catch members of the governing Conservative Party, who're descending on Manchester for their annual conference. We talked to one of Sunday's protesters to ask what has got the crowds fired up.

The Israeli Prime Minister's on a mission to thwart Iran's recent efforts to unfreeze its relations with the West. Benjamin Netanyahu claims Tehran's sweet talk is just a trick to buy the country's nuclear programme more time - and he's vowing to prove it in the White House and at the UN General Assembly. RT's Middle East correspondent Paula Slier looks at what to expect from the Israeli leader's counter-offensive. READ MORE:http://on.rt.com/x5r9pi

Sunday, September 29, 2013

"It's becoming more common to have robots sub in for humans to do dirty or sometimes dangerous work. But researchers are finding that in some cases, people have started to treat robots like pets, friends, or even as an extension of themselves. That raises the question, if a soldier attaches human or animal-like characteristics to a field robot, can it affect how they use the robot? What if they "care" too much about the robot to send it into a dangerous situation?"

This has "Boondoggle" written all over it for a wide variety of reasons. Setting aside the blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment, this data sweep is producing vast amounts of total garbage. First off, people (especially politicians) love to brag about how many Facebook friends they have, and just add them willy-nilly as the requests come in. Being somewhat prominent in the independent media, I just automatically click "connect" without even reading the names. and I certainly do not know these people or associate with them. There is no way to discern my true friends whom I do associate with from that Facebook friends list. Second, people often lie on social media, especially if they are single and trying to find a hot date. So as a whole, social media is unreliable as a source of raw intelligence. Finally, as any IT expert or mathematician will tell you, new information is linearly additive, but the correlation of all information is an unlimited expansion. Collecting all the social media and phone calls and texts on all 330 million Americans presents an unsolvable problem for the NSA. They simply do not have the manpower to evaluate all that mass of data, and as mentioned above, the vast majority of that data is worthless junk. That may be why a recent episode of South Park lampooned the NSA by suggesting they had kidnapped Santa Clause and were relying on him to tell them who is naughty or nice. And, the failure of NSA to thwart either the Boston bombing or the Nairobi attack proves the system does not work as described. One more terror attack, of any scale, anywhere in America will hammer that point home to an already skeptical American people.

Unbelievably Massive New NSA Revelation In Tomorrow's New York Times—Explained In 2 Minutes (VIDEO)

Unbelievably Massive New NSA Revelation In Tomorrow's New York Times (VIDEO)

Desperate to cling onto their ability to dictate reality, the crumbling mainstream media is beginning to kill off article comment sections in a cynical bid to silence dissenting voices.

Studies confirm that article comments sections - for better or worse - are heavily swaying public opinion. How many times have you read a mainstream news article about NSA spying, drones, gun control or any other other hot button issue where the author sides with the establishment, only to have their argument completely eviscerated by the respondents in the comment section?

Recent polls show that trust in mainstream media is hovering at record lows. After largely failing to influence the court of public opinion via paid trolls, the establishment is starting to panic and is responding by moving to cull comment sections altogether.

Popular Science and BoingBoing.net recently announced their decision to kill comment sections on their website. Thew New York times also recently announced that it is scaling back comments and removing them from some articles altogether.

As an excellent Daily Tech piece highlights, Popular Science admitted that its decision to pull the comment section was in order to preach a "scientific doctrine" on global warming without being challenged. The origin of the word "doctrine" is to indoctrinate. Therefore, Popular Science is taking the most unscientific approach possible - by censoring debate and stifling alternative ideas - in order to indoctrinate its readers.

The decision to kill comment sections on news websites will only result in the mainstream losing traffic to alternative sites which allow free expression and do not resort to censorship.

In this in-depth interview, Thomas Drake shares the wrenching experience of becoming a target of the national security machine he'd been part of. Charged with 10 counts, including 5 under the draconian Espionage Act, he took a guilty plea on a minor charge to avoid prison and bankruptcy. Drake has a lot to say, and Americans need to hear it! Tom Drake was a high ranking official at the National Security Agency, and witnessed the corruption and failure of the Trailblazer program, which is described by his former colleague Bill Binney and reporter Tim Shorrock in Part 1 of this 2-part special on the "NSA 4″.

While Drake is still not permitted to disclose many details of his work at the NSA, he is remarkably candid--and at times agitated--in describing the retaliation he faced as an unwilling whistleblower.--he describes the personal and professional cost of his investigation, indictment and trial--he talks about his oath to defend the Consititution and his angst over the intentional violations caused by surveillance programs approved by Bush and Obama--how the NSA went to "the dark side" after 9/11

--the rejection of surveillance software that protected our rights in favor of outsourced, grossly expensive software that squandered more than $6 billion and profited contractors with cozy connections

--Michael Hayden was director of NSA, promoted the Trailblazer program, covered up its failure, and was promoted

--he confirms CIA's Michael Sheuer's claim that NSA would not share an intercepted bin Laden call, and says 9/11 could have been prevented if CIA and NSA had collaborated--he believes he was the scapegoat for the disclosure of the illegal wiretapping by the NY Times in 2005, but he had never talked to their reporters

There's much more in this important interview, be sure to listen to the end as he talks about the attacks on whistleblowers and efforts "to break people, bankrupt and blackball them".

Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In this one-hour, ground-breaking travel special, you'll discover the splendid monuments of Iran's rich and glorious past, learn more about the 20th-century story of this perplexing nation, and experience Iranian life today in its historic capital and in a countryside village. Most important, you'll meet the people of a nation whose government has so exasperated our own.

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, discuss whether banking bonus outrage is equivalent to the lynching of African Americans in the Deep South and the money, money, money, MONEY! of the ex-Presidents of the United States. In the second half, Max interviews George Galloway, a Member of Parliament, about his documentary film, The Killing of Tony Blair. They also discuss crowd funding democracy with Galloway's run for Mayor of London.

"In an attempt to cut down on employment discrimination against felons and reduce recidivism rates, a bill waiting for Gov. Jerry Brown's (D-CA) signature would remove a question on local and state job applications asking applicants about their criminal record.

In May of 1991 Aleksandr Pligin decided to dedicate his life to restoring a monastery on an island with the help of his family. Today we meet with Pligin's widow, who talks about the work her husband began and that she and her family continues.

"That's right, you could get paid a total of around $18,000 for lying in bed, playing games on your phone, reading books, skyping with your friends and family, taking online classes -- and even go on with your day job if you can get away with working remotely, so long as you don't get out of bed for that entire duration." The Young Turks hosts John Iadarola and Ana Kasparian discuss the study, and just how much money it would take for them to participate.

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches ... appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -- Thomas Paine

Bruce Heyman raised almost $2 million to Obama's re-election campaign. He is now made US Ambassador in Canada (VIDEO)

Last week, President Barack Obama nominated his pick, Bruce Heyman, for the highly coveted ambassadorship to Canada. Heyman is a career investment banker, and currently serves as the managing director for Goldman Sachs' Private Wealth Management Group. A Canadian newspaper says that Heymans' regional focus at Goldman Sachs is Canada. RT's Ameera David takes a look at Heyman's other qualifications for this and other top diplomatic spots.

Mercenaries, drones and commando forces - the UK's possible solutions to make war more acceptable. The military has come up with a list of recommendations to ease the nation's war fatigue, and drum up support for military campaigns. RT's Laura Smith examines the methods being looked at.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has unveiled an attack drone, capable of carrying missiles and described as the unit's "most sophisticated" so far. The Guard's website, sepahnews.com, says General Mohammad Ali Jafari unveiled the drone on Friday. He is quoted as saying the all-Iranian-made drone is a strategic asset in protecting the nation's borders. The website says the drone, dubbed Shahed-129, or Witness-129, can fly up to a distance of 1,700 kilometres (1,062 miles), which puts much of the Middle East within its range. It says the drone has a 24-hour non-stop flight capability, can carry eight bombs or missiles, and hit both fixed and moving targets.

Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US governmentOsama bin Laden DIED IN 2001. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication. MORE: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.php

2022 World Cup host Qatar, is mired in scandal. It's under fire following reports of migrant workers on construction projects being abused. The mistreatment has been compared to slavery, and has led to dozens of deaths. READ MOREhttp://on.rt.com/50mjah

Friday, September 27, 2013

Many photos of the Kenyan Mall attack

I am looking at the photos being used to illustrate the story about the attack at the mall in Kenya, and I have a problem with some of them.

This is the most damning shot of all. Real blood does not separate into red pigment and clear fluid as it soaks through cloth. And if those were real bullet holes, given their locations, this man should not be able to stand, let alone walk unassisted.

We all know the official story of "Plamegate" by now: the Bush administration, angry at ex-Ambassador Joe Wilson's op-ed accusing the White House of "twisting the evidence" to lead the country into war with Iraq, leaked his wife's identity as a CIA agent to journalist Robert Novak, who then revealed it in the Washington Post. After a lengthy investigation, "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's Chief of Staff, was convicted for obstruction of justice and Richard Armitage took the fall for leaking the name in the first place.

The very foundations of the official Plamegate narrative, however, were undermined by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who told The Sunday Times in 2008 and reaffirmed in sworn testimony in 2009, that Brewster Jennings was in fact exposed by a high-ranking State Department official in 2001, two years before Plamegate...

Alex welcomes Lord Christopher Monckton to break down the very serious blows that have been dealt to the global warming and climate change movement after predictions of dire straits have proved completely false.

According to the US State Department, "no one definition of terrorism has gained universal acceptance" within our government. And what constitutes a terrorist is rather expansive, as Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) explains. Even former White House Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel meets the criteria. Perianne Boring has more.

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, led by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, continue working to draft a resolution to compel Syria to give up its chemical weapons stockpile. Secretary Kerry is also meeting with Iran's foreign minister and top diplomats from other countries to discuss Iran's nuclear program. In a speech to the UN General Assembly earlier Thursday, newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons around the world. RT's Anastasia Churkina updates us on the latest developments in the world of diplomacy.

Amidst the furor over the debt ceiling, Obamacare and a potential government shutdown, efforts to reform the National Security Agency are quietly moving forward. Since June, Edward Snowden's leaked revelations about how the NSA spies on American citizens have led to the introduction of more than a dozen pieces of proposed legislation designed to rein in the NSA and bring light to the top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Those bills have now been combined into one comprehensive bill. RT's Sam Sacks has more information on Congress' efforts to reform the spy agency.

On September 24, RT Correspondent Meghan Lopez brought us the story of three families dealing with the aftermath of synthetic marijuana use. One teen is in rehab, one suffered serious brain injuries and one died. Federal and local governments have been teaming up with law enforcement to try to figure out a way to deal with the complexities of this public health emergency. However, because synthetic drugs are created in a lab, the chemical structure is easy to manipulate and, therefore, hard to regulate. In part two, Meghan Lopez takes a closer look and the legal battle brewing over synthetic cannabinoids.

Last week, Apple released its latest operating system upgrade for iPhones, iOS 7. This week, an online ad began popping up, touting the advantages of the upgrade. One of those so-called updates, however, was just a prank. In this week's Tech Report, RT's Sam Sacks has more on the ad and why it caused users to drop their phones in water.

Government agents acting without authorization conducted dozens of undercover investigations of illegal tobacco sales, misused some of $162 million in profits from the stings and lost track of at least 420 million cigarettes, the Justice Department's inspector general said Wednesday.In one case, agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sold $15 million in cigarettes and later turned over $4.9 million in profits from the sales to a confidential informant — even though the agency did not properly account for the transaction.